Choose Your Own Labor Day Adventure!
[This post originally appeared Labor Day 2011.] I’ll be honest: I’m not sure I understand Labor Day. Memorial Day? I get that. Veterans Day? Yep. Independence Day, Presidents Day, even Arbor Day…those all make...
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Flashback Friday: The Two Words That Will Kill Your Volunteer Ministry
Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! Churches and non-profits are built on the backs of volunteers. When babies...
Thursday Three For All: Coaxing Volunteers, Digital Neighbors, and Shooting Macro
It’s Thursday, kiddies: the day when I roll out a few things I’ve been reading over the past week. Three of ‘em, to be exact. Enjoy. (Remember: click on the big bold print to read the...
Q&A: How Do You Handle Missed Meetings?
In a recent post I talked about our ongoing meeting schedule, which raised a couple of questions regarding how well-attended those meetings tend to be, plus how we handle disseminating info to those who can’t...
Multi-Site: You Need An EPOD
I’ve said before that there are as many ways to arrange a multi-site church as there are multi-site churches. If your structure includes some form of central oversight, or depends on campuses to have a...
How To Run A Lost And Found
Welcome to the How To series here on the blog, where I occasionally tackle mind-numbingly boring topics that make the hidden nerds among us geek out. The rest of you that don’t care about these things,...
Flashback Friday: Recognize. Respond.
Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! Not every Starbucks has a singing barista, but mine most certainly does....
Thursday Three For All: Used Bookstores, After-Action Reviews, And A Sheep In A Swing
It’s Thursday, kiddies: the day when I roll out a few things I’ve been reading over the past week. Three of ‘em, to be exact. Enjoy. (Remember: click on the big bold print to read the...
Batch Your Meetings
Productivity enthusiasts have long heralded the benefits of batching tasks: holding on to those random things until you have them in a neat pile and then tackling them all at once. Examples include only answering...
Why You Don’t Need To Say “Need”
If I were to ask you the question, Does your church need volunteers?, I’m confident the answer would be a resounding YES. In fact, I’m somewhat confident that your “yes” would follow a series of chortles, guffaws, and...
